Julia Leggent
Julia Leggent
Julia Leggent is an image-based artist that grew up in Norton, Kansas, a small town located 10 minutes from the Nebraska border. She received her B.F.A. in Painting from Fort Hays State University in 2017 and her M.F.A from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2021. Julia explores personal and universal topics through detailed paintings and drawings that typically operate at life scale. The images of flesh, pills, trash, and other objects follow her routines, thoughts, and worries but are meant to be widely relatable. With each of her works, she hopes to bring awareness to social, political, and feminine themes while drawing the viewer in and inciting interest in specific aspects of everyday life.
@juliaelise_art
My painting and drawings are about time; they are a testimony of the life that I am living. Some represent a single significant moment, the point I fell in love with my partner or the daily decision to take a pill that prevents pregnancy. Other pieces represent a specific portion of time, the time it takes to grow eleven inches of hair or cook every recipe in a cookbook. My works are meticulous and operate at a one-to-one, life scale. Making a piece of art with this amount of detail takes time, and there is a symbolic connection between the hours it took to create the work and the moments I chose to immortalize.
